Catrano Catrani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian film director
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Place of Birth: CittĂ di Castello, Umbria, Italy
About Catrano Catrani
- Catrano M.
- Catrani (October 31, 1910 â December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer. Catrani was born in 1910 in CittĂ di Castello, Umbria, Italy.
- He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
- He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios.
- He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el Ășltimo piso with Zully Moreno as the lead. His first big success was Alto ParanĂĄ, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo MartĂnez in the lead role as Frutos GĂłmez, a sardonic and astute policeman.
- In 1963, he directed La fusilaciĂłn or El Ășltimo montonero, co-written with FĂ©lix Luna and with music by Ariel RamĂrez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ăngel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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